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Spying Chrome Extensions: 287 Extensions spying on 37M users

We built an automated scanning pipeline that runs Chrome inside a Docker container, routes all traffic through a man‑in‑the‑middle (MITM) proxy, and watches for outbound requests that correlate with the length of the URLs we feed it.Using a leakage metric we flagged 287 Chrome extensions that exfiltrate browsing history.Those extensions collectively have ~37.4 M installations – roughly 1 % of the global Chrome user base.The actors behind the leaks span the spectrum: Similarweb, Curly Doggo, Offi...

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